Category Archives: PowerShell V3

PowerShell 5.0 introduced PackageManagement (Oneget) – for managing software installation packages and PowerShellGet for managing PowerShell modules. Those features are now available on PowerShell 3 and 4 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2016/03/08/package-management-preview-march-2016-for-powershell-4-3-is-now-available/

Consider this workflow workflow chkpt1 { Get-Process foreach ($x in 1..20){$x} }   It will dump out the process information then output the numbers 1 to 20.  Not a particularly enlightening workflow but it forms  a nice basis for demonstrating … Continue reading →

One of the great things about work flows is that you can stop and start them. A workflow can be stopped, on a temporary basis, by using the Suspend-Workflow activity. workflow suspend1 {Get-Service Suspend-Workflow Get-Process }suspend1   This will run … Continue reading →

In my last post I questioned why commands from CDXML didn’t fail as thee weren’t any activities defined for them.  Turns out that functions and other commands that don’t explicitly have their own workflow activities are implicitly wrapped in the … Continue reading →

Last time we saw that you’re not really using cmdlets in PowerShell workflows – you’re using workflow activities. Some cmdlets haven’t been packaged into activities and for those you need to put them in an Inlinescript block.  You can also … Continue reading →

This is a simple function to return some data about a system: function get-serverdata { Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_OperatingSystem Get-Service Get-Process } get-serverdata   The function will return the CIM data about the operating system, then the service data and then … Continue reading →